Agree 100%. I don’t know how that dire mechanism of installation became “a thing”. FFS, it’s everywhere and it annoys the hell out of me. I guess people can argue that it’s the same as make install as root (which I also dislike), but at least we’ve moved on in that realm, to binary package managers.

Are you just saying you prefer to untar > ./configure > make > make install route? I don’t really understand the benefit of a “traditional tarball” other than if it had an MD5 to go with it to verify package contents.

And for those that use it, the ability to install it using their package manager of choice (I see Homebrew support is on the way).